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HOVEA purpurea. 
Purple-flowered Hovea. 
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Linnean Class and Order. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order, LEGUMINOS#. DC. prodr. 2. p. 93. 
Subordo I. PAPILIONACE#.—Tribus Il. Lote, DC. lic. p. 115. 
Subtribus I, Genisrzea. Legumen uniloculare. Stamina sepissimé monadelpha. 
Folia simplicia aut palmatim trifoliata rariis pinnata. Caules szpissime fruticosi. 
HOVEA. Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore semibifido lato retuso, inferiore tri- 
partito. Carina obtusa. Stamina omnia connexa aut decimo superneé plus minus libero. 
Legumen sessile, subrotundum, ventricosum, dispermum, Semina strophiolata,—Fruti- 
ces Australasici. Folia alterna, simplicia, Flores axillares, purpurei aut violacei, breviter 
pediculati. DC, prodr. 2, p.115. 
a 
H. purpurea, ramis erectis ferrugineo-tomentosis, foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusis mu- 
cronulatis margine revolutis supra glabris reticulato-venosis subtus tomentosis, 
stipulis subulatis minimis, pedunculis axillaribus geminis, bracteis duobus calyci 
proximis tertia remotis, calyce ferrugineo-tomentoso, 

A. dwarf branching erect shrub; branches clothed with a 
ferruginous pubescence, which wears off by age. Leanes alter- 
nate, rigid, smooth, channelled, and reticulately veined on the 
upper side, underneath clothed with a dense wool, which is 
more or less ferruginous, particularly on the midrib, obtuse, but 
terminated by a short rigid mucro, margins slightly rolled back : 
lower leaves on young plants elliptic or obovate: upper ones 
oblongly linear. Petzole short and stout, densely pubescent. S¢7- 
pules minute, subulate. Flowers in pairs in the axils of the leaves, 
of a bright purple. Peduncles clothed with a ferruginous pu- 
bescence. Bractes 3, oblong, obtuse, concave, ferruginous, 2 of 
them close to the calyx, the other about half way down the pe- 
duncle. Calyx 2-lipped, clothed with a dense ferruginous pu- 
bescence: upper lip broadly wedge-shaped, emarginate: lower 
one three-cleft : lacinize ovately lanceolate, acute, slightly spread- 
ing. Vewillum broader than long, emarginate, with rather a 
slender unguis, very much lined, the lines forked at the points, 
bright purple, with a white eye at the base. Ale or wings spa- 
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